A lawyer from Moscow ‘switched’ and accused HR of being biased against women 20:42

Ekaterina Agrytskova, a lawyer from Moscow, said on her resume that she had changed her “gender” to male and changed her name, surname and photo to see if HR would respond more actively to responses from a male applicant. The Russian woman talked about her experiment on the social network Facebook on February 3 (the owner of Meta was considered an extremist in Russia and was banned).

Looking for a job, Agrytskova sought only leadership positions: Head of the Legal Department, Director of Legal Affairs, Deputy Chief Legal Officer.

“I wrote everything in my CV as it is: a 43-year-old woman, with two higher educations, experience in consulting, shipping and logistics companies, managerial experience at an international publishing house,” she added.

According to the lawyer, his resume was rarely looked at, and they often thanked him for the letter and refused to continue the dialogue. The new profile was named Yaroslav. “I am 39 years old. I copied my work experience, overtaking a year everywhere,” he said.

Agrytskova chose a beautiful photo of a man from a free photobank for her avatar. “Yaroslav has as many views in two hours as Catherine gets in a week. Yaroslav is invited to interviews, but Ekaterina is not even looked at,” the Russian woman concluded.

A few days later, the post went viral on RuNet. User opinions are divided in the comments. Some supported the paper’s author, seeing his experiment as proof that men do indeed prefer to be elected to leadership positions.

Others assured that the reason for rejection was not gender related. According to them, the decision may be influenced by the age difference or the predominance of women in HR who generally prefer male candidates.

A photographer named Alina, formerly from Russia complained about a bad date due to the obligation to pay 2.6 thousand rubles for wine. Many social network users were surprised by this reaction of the author.